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Nancy Carroll

Nancy Carroll
Nancy Carroll - Willow Green.jpg
(1930)
Born Ann Veronica Lahiff
(1903-11-19)November 19, 1903
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died August 6, 1965(1965-08-06) (aged 61)
New York City, US
Cause of death aneurysm
Resting place Calvary Cemetery , Queens, New York City
Occupation actress
Years active 1923–1965
Spouse(s) Jack Kirkland (1925–1930)
Francis Bolton Mallory (1931–1935)
C.H. "Jappe" Groen (1953–1965)

Nancy Carroll (November 19, 1903 – August 6, 1965) was an American actress.

Of Irish parentage, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Lahiff, Carroll was christened Ann Veronica Lahiff in New York City. Her education came at Holy Trinity School in New York, but she left there at age 16 to work in an office.

Carroll and her sister once performed a dancing act in a local contest of amateur talent. This led her to a stage career and then on to screen stardom. She began her acting career in Broadway musicals. She became a successful actress in "talkies" because her musical background enabled her to play in movie musicals of the 1930s. Her film debut was in Ladies Must Dress in 1927.

In 1928 she made eight films. One of them, Easy Come, Easy Go, co-starring Richard Dix, made her a star. In 1929 she starred in The Dance of Life with Hal Skelly, and The Wolf of Wall Street along with George Bancroft and Olga Baclanova. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930 for The Devil's Holiday. Among her other films are Laughter (1930), Paramount on Parade (1930), Hot Saturday (1932) with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) directed by James Whale, and Broken Lullaby aka The Man I Killed (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch.


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